diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 3ad461d..1f218bc 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -21,3 +21,6 @@ project/plugins/project/
 src/main/resources/static/js
 src/main/resources/static/css
 src/main/resources/static/fonts
+
+# package lock
+ui/package-lock.json
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 6c6d2d9..785f4d7 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ An `akka-http` server exposing a REST API for text annotation via the [`processo
 ## Requirements
 1. [Java 8](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/install/install_overview.html)
 2. [`sbt`](http://www.scala-sbt.org/download.html)
+3. [`node.js`](https://nodejs.org/en/)
+4. [`npm`](https://www.npmjs.com/get-npm)
 
 ## How is this useful?
 This might be useful to people wanting to do NLP in a non-`JVM` language without a good existing parser.  Currently there are services for using `processors`' `CluProcessor`, `FastNLPProcessor` (a wrapper for `CoreNLP`) and `BioNLPProcessor`.
diff --git a/server-setup.md b/server-setup.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4568ee2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/server-setup.md
@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+# Steps for setting up on Server
+
+## installing `java`
+
+See https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-java-with-apt-get-on-ubuntu-16-04
+
+```
+sudo apt-get update
+sudo apt-get install default-jre
+sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
+sudo apt-get update
+sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer
+```
+
+## installing `bc`
+
+Don't know what it does, but was required to get `sbt` to play nice
+
+```
+sudo apt-get install bc
+```
+
+## installing `sbt`
+
+```
+echo "deb https://dl.bintray.com/sbt/debian /" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/sbt.list
+sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv 2EE0EA64E40A89B84B2DF73499E82A75642AC823
+sudo apt-get update
+sudo apt-get install sbt
+```
+
+## installing `node.js`
+
+```
+curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_9.x | sudo -E bash -
+sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
+```
+
+## installing `npm`
+
+run `npm -v` first to see if already installed
+
+
+```
+sudo npm install npm -g
+```
+
+## ensure permissions
+
+```
+sudo chown -R mcapizzi processors-server
+```
+
+## adding `.sbtopts`
+```
+-J-Xms4G
+-J-Xmx6G
+```
+
+# Running on server
+
+```
+sbt
+run-main NLPServer --host 0.0.0.0
+```
+
+Then from local machine, use this `API` address: `http://[server_ip]:8888/api/annotate`
diff --git a/src/main/resources/requests/annotate.json b/src/main/resources/requests/annotate.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a275aea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/resources/requests/annotate.json
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+{
+  "text": "My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/main/resources/requests/odin.json b/src/main/resources/requests/odin.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..034d356
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/resources/requests/odin.json
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+{
+  "rules": "",
+  "text": "My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
+}
\ No newline at end of file